Five years ago, Hurricane Maria knocked out power and upended lives Puerto Rico, Dominica, and St. Croix.
. Roads were flooded, roofs were torn off houses, and bridges collapsed
across several Caribbean islands. Most wooden homes across all of the heavily affected islands were severely damaged by the flooding and winds, a-story building by the beach...everything was crazy when we came [back],” Melisa Martinez, a rheumatologist from Puerto Rico, told Earther. “My apartment and another apartment survived, but the whole building was a disaster. There were sofas everywhere and everything was on the street. TThe human toll of the storm was staggering. The Puerto Rican government’s initial official death toll was 65 people, according to the NOAA report, while 31 people in Dominica died another 34 on the island were considered missing. The island of Guadeloupe had two deaths directly attributed to the hurricane.
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